《苔丝》是哈代的代表作,创作于19世纪晚期,那时英国社会正经历着对社会结构做巨大调整的痛苦,这部小说反映了当时需要迫切解决的一些问题。哈代较之他的前辈作家有更高层次的创作性,他塑造的苔丝不是一个弱者,也不是小说中处于陪衬地位的人物,而是一个具有反抗精神的女性形象,是一个完完全全统治整个小说的女主人公。通过对苔丝性格特点的分析,说明苔丝是一个纯洁的女人,是一个新鲜纯朴的自然女性,从侧面揭露了传统贞操观念的不公和它的危害,对资本主义虚伪的法律规范和伪善的宗教进行了强烈的批判,一些教训仍值得今天的人们吸取。哈代是一个悲观主义者和宿命论者,他用迷信和巧合加强小说的宿命论感,因此小说中的苔丝很明显地表现出一种对生活的悲观看法。 Tess was Hardy’s masterpiece, written in the late 19th century, when British society was experiencing the pain of a drastic adjustment in social structure, a novel that reflected some of the issues that needed urgent solution. Hardy had a higher level of creation than his predecessor writers. Tess, who shaped Tess instead of being a weak person, nor a foil figure in the novel, was an image of a revolting woman and a complete reign The heroine of the novel. Through the analysis of the character of Tess, Tess is a pure woman, is a fresh and simple natural woman, exposing the unfairness and harm of the traditional concept of chastity from the side, the hypocrisy of the legal norms and hypocrisy of capitalism Religion has been strongly criticized, and some lessons are still worth learning by today’s people. Hardy, a pessimist and fatalist, uses superstition and coincidence to reinforce the fatalism of the novel, so Tess in the novel clearly shows a pessimistic view of life.